I'm home at my mom's and stepdad's now (with high-speed internet again!) and I got more loot...some RAM for my laptop, which made it super-speedy now, and a new all-in-one printer for my dorm room, plus the requisite stocking toiletries. I also got the Vertigo DVD and I'm getting some new sunglasses soon too once my mom and I get a chance to go pick out a pair.

If your computer is slow, and you can hear your hard drive grinding away, then yes RAM will likely make it go faster. Although if you have 512MB of more already, the problem is likely somewhere else, either your CPU is slow, or too many programs running in the background.